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Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.

Sharon Kay Penman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1945

Topics

Work I Am Night Owl Chapter Little

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Great Impossible Political Animals

At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'

Jeff Van Gundy

Success Good Animal Dress People

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.

Stephen Evans

Life Time Die Important Will More

Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.

Tommy Tune

Up Left Where Because Off Continue

We must make the masses understand that we have a responsibility to care for our animals and that when things get messed up, it's usually because human hands have caused it.

Tony Cardenas

Responsibility Care Hands Messed Up

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

Rita Dove

Black And White King People Black Up

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Liya Kebede

Time Focus Losing People New Reason

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

Donna Karan

Balance Feel Now Need Used Well

I don't go out there and put on any sort of front for people. If I'm in a good mood, I appear in a good mood on TV, and if I'm in a bad mood, I just go out there and look like I'm in a bad mood.

Dean Ambrose

Good People Look Bad Go Mood

At some point during my travels, I had a slight change of focus which would end up defining the rest of my career. I began taking pictures of people. In addition to all the buildings, street signs and fire hydrants, I started photographing some of the interesting humans that passed by me on the street.

Brandon Stanton

Change Focus Fire People Me Rest

I've always known I wanted to go into acting, but being a very proud teenager, I wasn't ready to admit it until I felt like it was going to be possible.

Annabelle Wallis

Proud Acting Admit Ready Possible

I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what.

Alice Waters

Light Night Kitchen Fireplace Matter